 ... of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds : so that when, after dilating his thoughts to comprehend the grandeur of those ideas his calculations have called up, and exhausting his imagination and the powers of his language to devise similes and...  Mechanical Philosophy, Horology, and Astronomy - Page 368by William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 575 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various and transcendent glory — effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds : so...sphere ; he finds it, in comparison, a mere point; so lost — even in the minute system to which it belongs — as to be invisible and unsuspected from... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various and transcendent glory — effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds : so...sphere ; he finds it, in comparison, a mere point ; so lost — even in the minute system to which it belongs — as to be invisible and unsuspected from... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1834 - 406 pages
...sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various and transcendent glory — effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds : so...sphere ; he finds it, in comparison, a mere point; so lost — even in the minute system to which it belongs — as to be invisible and unsuspected from... | |
 | 1833 - 608 pages
...sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various and transcendent glory — effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds : so...native sphere ; he finds it, in comparison, a mere rint ; so lost — even in the minute system to which belongs — as to be invisible and unsuspected... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1878 - 616 pages
...lucid sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various and transcendent glory, effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds. So...sphere ; he finds it, in comparison, a mere point ; so lost, even in the minute system to which it belongs, as to be invisible and unsuspected from some of... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1878 - 642 pages
...lucid sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various aud transcendent glory, effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds. So...thoughts to comprehend the grandeur of those ideas bis calculations have called up, and exhausting bis imagination and the powers of his language to devise... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1842 - 472 pages
...lucid sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various and transcendent glory— effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds : so...dilating his thoughts to comprehend the grandeur^ those ideas his calculations have called up, and exhausting his imagination and the powers of his language... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1850 - 480 pages
...sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various and transcendent glory, — effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds : so...his calculations have called up, and exhausting his inagination and the powers of his language to devise similes and metaphors illustrative of the immensity... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1851 - 744 pages
...sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various and transcendent glory — effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds. So...sphere; he finds it, in comparison, a mere point; so lost — even in the minute system to which it belongs — as to be invisible and unsuspected from... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1851 - 706 pages
...sparks or brilliant atoms, are to him suns of various and transcendent glory — effulgent centres of life and light to myriads of unseen worlds. So...scale on which his universe is constructed, he shrinks hack to his native sphere ; he finds it, in comparison, a mere point ; so lost — even in the minute... | |
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